Recent theories propose that semantic representation and sensorimotor processing have a
common substrate via simulation. We tested the prediction that comprehension interacts with …

The sensory–motor account of conceptual processing suggests that modality-specific
attributes play a central role in the organization of object and action knowledge in the brain …

Despite its many twists and turns, the arc of cognitive science generally bends toward
progress, thanks to its interdisciplinary nature. By glancing at the last few decades of …

We investigated the question of whether comprehenders mentally simulate a described
situation even when this situation is explicitly negated in the sentence. In two experiments …

Publisher Summary It is clear that one of the 20th century's greatest educational thinkers
believed that there is a close connection between the body and education. But why should …

In some theories of sentence comprehension, linguistically relevant lexical knowledge, such
as selectional restrictions, is privileged in terms of the time-course of its access and …

A previous study by Chen demonstrates a correlation between languages that grammatically
mark future events and their speakers' propensity to save, even after controlling for …

We explored how speakers and listeners use hand gestures as a source of perceptual-motor
information during naturalistic communication. After solving the Tower of Hanoi task either …

Language and action systems are functionally coupled in the brain as demonstrated by
converging evidence using Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) …

Many objects typically occur in particular locations, and object words encode these spatial
associations. We tested whether such object words (eg, head, foot) orient attention toward …